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Why diamond behaves like an insulator?

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Because the energy gap in case of diamond is very required to excite the electrons.
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MODERN PUBLICATION-SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRONICS METERIALS DEVICES AND SIMPLE CIRCUITS -REVISION EXERCISES (VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION)
  1. What is fermi level and fermi energy?

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  2. what is the behaviour of semiconductors at room temperature

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  3. Why diamond behaves like an insulator?

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  4. Draw the output signal in a p-n junction diode when a square input...

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  5. Distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors

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  6. What is doping why it is done

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  7. Give two example of pentavalent and trivalent impurities

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  8. What is an extrinsic semiconductor? Discuss the working of the various...

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  9. How will you dope a pure silicon crystal to obtain a p type and an n t...

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  10. p-type and n-type semiconductors .

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  11. Give a comparative discussion on majority and minority carriers in n...

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  12. When a p-n junction diode is forward biased how will its barrier pot...

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  13. What do you mean by reverse biasing of a p-n diode

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  14. What is the deffect on current when a p-n diode is (i) forward biased...

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  15. What is knee voltage

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  16. What is the use of a rectifier

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  17. Give any two difference between a half wave rectifier and a full wave ...

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  18. What happens to the width of depletion layer of a p-n junction when it...

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  19. DYNAMIC RESISTANCE OF THE JUNCTION DIODE

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  20. What is the value of a ripple factor for a half wave and a full wav...

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